Jim Hawkins

Nicole Alderman wrote:We've been plagued by glitches in our sign-up process. We think we've caught them all and fixed them, but perhaps some have slipped by. We want to make our sign-up process as simple and painless as possible. That is what this thread is for!


Everyone who has just signed up to permies will get a link to this thread. Please share any bumps in the road you've encountered while signing up. Thank you!

Thank you for a very intersting forum.

The quality of the "security" software's pictures is so grainy that one must guess if there is "a car in" a given picture.  And that after trying to scope out if a truck is a "car" for security purposes. (IT people always know what they mean even if the rest of human folk do not.)

This is not a problem solely at your fine forum.  My insurance company stopped using it for the same reason.   My favorite was the call to click on pictures with "steet signs" when some pictures showed speed limit signs, others steet name signs, others "no Parking" signs.  Turns out, only some were "street signs" in the minds of the IT folk.  0___0

Eventually, one guesses correctly - an infinite number of monkies, and all that.

As I do not anticipate needing to register again, it's no personal tragedy, but it may cost the forum members if those turned away by the defective software are not stubborn enough to try over and over and over to guess correctly.  

I have collected seed this Spring from last year's crop of pods fallen from trees in the Twinsburg Library's garden area.  They are labeled "tghornless Honey Locust, and none of the seven mature trees has the viciosu thorns that I have seen on other locust trees in the woods of Ohio.
The seeds look like this, only the uniform brown of "my" seeds is darker.



Botanical inormation:
Thornless Honeylocust - Gleditsia triacanthos,  form inermis
IN a Nutshell:

* This is the thornless version of the species. It is a popular street tree in the East and Midwest and offers a graceful habit and fine textured leaves that can be spectacular in their rich golden yellow fall color. The light shade the bright green summer foliage casts allows grass to grow next to the trunk. It is very adaptable to soils and displays excellent salt tolerance.

* The pods have been made into a tea for the treatment of indigestion, measles, catarrh etc. The juiceof the pods is antiseptic. The pods have been seen as a good antidote for children's complaints.

* Current research is examining the leaves as a potential source of anticancer compounds.

* The seeds have been roasted and used as a coffee substitute. Seedpods - the pulp is sweet and can be eaten raw or made into sugar. The render young seedpods can be cooked and eaten.

*"Thornless" seed comes very true. There will be a few seedlings that develop thorns, but not many.

Wildlife Value
Thornless honeylocust seed pods and seeds are consumed by livestock and wildlife such as rabbits, deer, squirrels and northern bobwhite. The flowers provide a good source of food for bees.
History/Lore
The thornless honeylocust is native from Pennsylvania to Nebraska and south to Texas. The first scientific observations of this species were made in 1700. The tree derives the name "Honey" from the sweet, honey-like substance found in its pods. The Cherokees in Tennessee made bows from the tree's durable and strong wood. It has also long been a favorite for fence posts.
Germination

70-90%

Zones

4 to 9

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Robinia pseudoacacia L.  (Black Locust)

Quick facts

Originally from the United States, Black Locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) is a deciduous, root-suckering, pea-flowered tree initially introduced as an ornamental and for timber.
Found in cool temperate areas in Tasmania, to warm temperate areas in Victoria, WA and South Australia, to semi arid regions, to subtropical south-east Queensland and New South Wales.
Most reproduction appears to be by root suckering, with relatively few seedlings being produced, damaging roots or removing parent tree encourages dense suckering
It occurs most commonly on river flats, lowland grassland and grassy open woodland, roadsides, urban areas, and in or near abandoned gardens and can spread in to neighbouring [sic] paddocks

Physical removal is used with herbicides to kill the roots that profusely sucker.

The leaves, bark, wood, roots, seed-pods and seeds are poisonous to stock and to humans.  (Hoses eating bark have died in a few hours.)
s in a few days.)

Fruits are brown woody, flattish pods, also pendulous (hanging), glabrous (smooth without hairs) that are 30-80 mm long, 1 0–15 mm wide, and flattish, green turning light brown to eventually dark brown. Pods contains 4-10 mottled blackish seeds each about 5 mm long.

Agriculture:
Suckering plants can invade open paddocks, reducing carrying capacity. In addition, all parts of the plant including the leaves, wood, roots, pods and seeds are toxic to stock (Blood 2001). Black Locust is also fatal to horses and in one case a woman gave her horses some Robinia pseudoacacia to graze on. Within two hours both horses were in distress, shaking, frothing at the mouth and in much pain. The vet was able to save one of the horses, with the older horse  put down after hours of agony. The owner was previously unaware that the plant was poisonous (Thomson 2007). Horses feeding on Robinia pseudoacacia bark died after 4 hours (Wink & Van Wyk, 2008)


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